The 2-3 March 2010 called meeting of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) General Synod (GS) at the Bonclarken Conference Center in East Flat Rock, North Carolina , voted to 1) restructure the Erskine College and Theological Seminary (ECTS) Board of Trustees (BOT) to be a smaller body of sixteen members plus the active Moderator of Synod, 2) appoint an interim board of sixteen plus four ex officio members, the first two items effectively removing all current ECTS-BOT members, and an amendment to the second commending the former BOT members and stating that “systemic problems,” not “personal failure[s]” are the reason for the removals, 3) modify the nomination process for ECTS-BOT members, and 4) modify the qualifications for ECTS-BOT members, including “subscrib[ing] to the mission of Erskine College and Seminary as set forth in its mission statements.” Following the called ARP-GS meeting, several reactions to the synod initiatives have been voiced by ECTS constituencies within and outside of the ARP Church.

An 8 March 2010 article in The Index-Journal by Scott J. Bryan titled “Erskine Dean Bashes ARP” reports that ECTS interim vice president and dean of the college W. Gid Alston “vehemently opposes” the ARP-GS actions, questions the motives and actions of the ARP-GS, and supports the ousted trustees. Alston said: “The thing I found most disturbing about the firing of the fourteen board members is that some of the most highly effective board members in Erskine’s history were among those fired....These people have given tirelessly of their time, talent, and funds to help Erskine grow and flourish, and their dismissal was one of the most unethical and un-Christian acts that I have ever witnessed.” Alston continued: “I assume that sense of ownership stems from the fact that the ARP Church founded Erskine College in 1839, but the synod failed to note that the vast majority of Erskine’s assets, including its endowment, have (come) from contributions from alumni and friends of the college….Only a small percentage of financial support has come from the ARP Church, and the rights and investments of all of our contributors must be protected. Bottom line — the ARP Church does not own Erskine College.”A 4 March 2010 article in The Index-Journal by Felicia Kitzmiller titled “ARP Fires 14 Trustees on Erskine College Board” quotes several ECTS faculty members including English professor William Crenshaw who said: "It looks like they’re trying to take over the college and imprint the college with their own kind of narrow Christianity. That does not bode well for Erskine to continue as a liberal arts center….I try to teach critical thinking. Part of critical thinking is asking questions about everything. You don’t accept anything just because someone says it.” Retired thirty-four year faculty member Dick Haldeman said: “They have no regard for the tradition of academic excellence….These are very dangerous steps they have taken.... It’s a coup. Associate professor of psychology Robert J.F. Elsner said: “The only fear anyone really has about it is academic freedom. Academic freedom is paramount to a school built on academic success.” Commenting on the possibility of the ARP-GS requiring all ECTS faculty to be of the Reformed faith, Elsner said: "Blind faith is a weak faith. A faith untested is like a sword untempered; it breaks in the first battle….(Students) have to be able to function in the world so they have to be able to understand evolutionary perspective.”

ARP pastor the Rev. Tim Phillips’ Gairney Bridge Blog published an 8 March 2010 article titled “Reactions to Synod’s Actions,” where Phillips takes issue with several inaccuracies in reaction to the ARP-GS meeting, concluding “…that a failure to know adequate information leading to invalid logical conclusions is not sound critical thinking.”

A statement released by the Plateau State Elders Christian Fellowship said “…the Hausa Fulani Muslim militants were chanting ‘Allah Akbar,’ broke into houses, cutting human beings, including children and women with their knives and cutlasses.”

Dr. Abel Damina, youth president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria said: “Young men, Christians, were going to their farm to harvest their produce and the [Islamist] fundamentalists pounced on them,” he said. “They were called infidels. At the last conference, we received reports with photographs of the [Islamist] fundamentalists using AK-47 rifles to destroy our churches. Where did they get the arms from? We have reports of truck loads of arms that had been intercepted, and we did not hear anything about them.”

The three documents are 1) "Reformed Red Flags" - containing “a list of sixteen "behaviors" to look for when seeking to smoke out Calvinistic pastors,” 2) "Theological differences between Traditional Southern Baptist and Extreme Calvinists," and 3) A document for new church pastors and staff members to facilitate that “a pastor be forthcoming in doctrinal convictions.”

Ascol concludes the article by evaluating the appropriate response to the documents, concluding: “Let's examine ourselves in the light of that Word and determine to live wholeheartedly for our crucified and risen Savior. Critics will come and critics will go. What ultimately matters faithfulness to our Lord expressed through obedience to His Word.”

Ms. Thomas is a candidate for ministry in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and wants to attend seminary after her December 2010 graduation, and possibly help manage an orphanage in a poor country sometime after seminary.

At the workshop, PCG Moderator of the General Assembly the Right Rev. Dr. Yaw Frimpong-Manso voiced concern about the lack of evangelism in the church, and said that church members are idle, undisciplined, and ignorant of the tenets of the faith. The moderator added that “it was important for Presbyterians to cherish selfless and dedicated service in the missionary work in order to transform society.” Additionally, the moderator advised church members to “shun activities and lifestyles that were not in conformity with the church's beliefs and practices,” “to promote education, employable training and health outreach programs to enhance the physical well being of people,” and “to campaign vigorously to bring back "the Presbyterian discipline…"

A 6 December 2005 post on The Puritan Board by the Rev. Bruce Buchanan of the Chain-O-Lakes Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Central Lake, Michigan, describes the prayer labyrinth as “an occult path of the dead. Successful navigation of it led one to heaven; the lost wandered it forever in terror, ending up in the center pit from which there was no escape. Arcane knowledge (gnosis) of traversing it or a suitable guide, therefore, was [a] necessary part of pagan religion. In other incarnations, it serves a gnostic purpose of meditation…not the “inner-peace” type, but the “path”…to enlightenment.”

The book “presents the accurate and definitive version of Sinners, accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon….[and] contains questions for in-class discussion, a chronology of Edwards’s life, and a glossary. In addition, curricular materials and video mini-presentations are available on a dedicated Web site.”

In the book, “Dr. Ferguson laments that “we have lost the joy and energy that is experienced when grace seems truly ‘amazing.’” In an effort to restore the wonder of divine grace, he reflects on it from seven angles, each built around a stanza from a rich but little-known hymn, “O How the Grace of God Amazes Me,” written by Emmanuel T. Sibomana, a pastor in the African nation of Burundi. This book poses probing questions for today’s believer: “If I am not amazed by God’s grace, can I really be living in it? Can I really be tasting, and savoring, and delighting in it?” But those willing to delve into God’s Word with Dr. Ferguson will come away with a deeper astonishment at the depths of God’s grace.”